§ Mrs. Knightasked the Prime Minister if she will make a statement about the pay of medical and dental officers in the Armed Forces.
§ The Prime MinisterFollowing their earlier acceptance in full of the recommendations of the ninth report of the Armed Forces Pay Review Body, and of the tenth report of the Review Body on Doctors' and Dentists' Remuneration, the Government have now accepted the recommendations in the supplement to the AFPRB's ninth report for the pay of Service medical and dental officers appropriate from 1 April 1980. The supplement has been published today as Cmnd. 7956. Copies are available in the Vote Office.
160WIn order to preserve a differential over the pay of the brigadier, the pay of medical and dental major generals and their equivalents in the other Services has been fixed at £21,500. As I announced on 7 July, the pay of all lieutenant generals and their equivalents will be £24,500.